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Iraq receives 90-day extension to Iran sanctions waiver

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

A look at US involvement in Syria’s civil war

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File - In this Nov. 6, 2018, file photo, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, greets supporters in Honolulu. Gabbard, a Democratic congresswoman, is eyeing a White House run. The Iraq war veteran has visited New Hampshire and Iowa in recent months and has written a memoir that’s due to be published in May. First elected to the state Legislature at age 21, Gabbard throughout her career has ignored suggestions that she wait her turn. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)

Used to bucking establishment, Gabbard eyes White House run

By AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press

The persistence of the Islamic State

By Ilan Berman

Report: Iranian general fatally shoots himself by accident

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Iranian armed forces members march in a military parade marking the 38th anniversary of Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran, in front of the shrine of the late revolutionary founder, Ayatollah Khomeini, outside Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018. Gunmen attacked the military parade, killing at least eight members of the elite Revolutionary Guard and wounding 20 others, state media said. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Ghodratollah Mansouri, Iranian general, kills himself accidentally

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Turkey vows to keep striking PKK targets in Iraq

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Iraq summons Turkish ambassador over airstrikes

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FILE - In this June 23, 2014 file photo, fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. In a report issued Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, the New York-based rights group Amnesty International said the IS group’s deliberate destruction of agriculture in northern Iraq has hindered the return of hundreds of thousands of residents. The rights group said IS fighters burnt or chopped down orchards, sabotaged wells and stole or destroyed vital farming equipment. (AP Photo, File)

Amnesty says Islamic State group decimated rural Iraq

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN - Associated Press

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Nadia Murad, left, meets with her country's President Barham Salih, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018. Murad received the prize in 2018 for her advocacy on behalf of victims of wartime sexual violence. Murad, a member of Iraq's Yazidi minority, was among thousands of women and girls who were captured and forced into sexual slavery by Islamic State militants in 2014. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Nobel laureate returns to Iraq, pledges to work for peace

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN - Associated Press

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks at a news conference after meeting with Barham Salih, Iraq's President in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. (Thaier Al-Sudani/Pool Photo via AP)

US energy secretary urges Iraq to quit dependency on Iran

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In this Monday, April 4, 2016, file photo, smoke rises as people flee their homes during clashes between Iraqi security forces and members of the Islamic State group in Hit, Iraq, 85 miles (140 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq on Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, celebrated the anniversary of its costly victory over the Islamic State group, which has lost virtually all the territory it once held but still carries out sporadic attacks. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Iraq marks anniversary of victory over Islamic State

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 25, 2017 file photo, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley listens to a question while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Army's fiscal 2018 budget. President Donald Trump will tap Gen. Mark Milley as his next top military adviser, choosing a battle-hardened commander who has served as chief of the Army for the last three years, U.S. officials said Friday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump picks Army chief of staff as next top military adviser

By DEB REICHMANN - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 17, 2017 file photo, U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters use their video camera through a hole as they film a street controlled by Islamic State militants, on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria. A year after it was routed from Iraq following a three-year devastating war that left Iraqi cities in ruin, the Islamic State group is fighting to hang on to its last enclave in Syria, engaging in deadly battles with U.S.-backed forces in the country's east near the Iraqi border. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

After defeat in Iraq, IS fights on in last enclave in Syria

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

Iraqi parliament again fails to vote on vacant ministries

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Former ambassador to Croatia, state senator hosts forum

By JIM THERRIEN - Associated Press

In this Nov. 29, 2016 file photo, Iraqi Army soldiers celebrate as they hold a flag of the Islamic State group they captured during a military operation to regain control of a village outside Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Canada’s high court unanimously orders Vice reporter to surrender notes on ISIS source

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 1991, file photo, President George H.W. Bush talks to reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House after meeting with top military advisors to discuss the Persian Gulf War. From left are, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, Vice President Dan Quayle, White House Chief of Staff John Sununu, the president, Secretary of State James A. Baker III, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Colin Powell. Bush died at the age of 94 on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, about eight months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

1991 Gulf War looms large over Bush’s Mideast legacy

By HUSSAIN AL-QATARI and JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

In this photo released by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the special representative of the U.N. Secretary General for Iraq Jan Kubis, center, visits al-Sistani, left, in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. The official website of Iraq’s most senior Shiite cleric has published a rare photo for the aging leader, the first in several years. (Official website of Ali al-Sistani via AP)

Rare photo of Iraq’s most senior Shiite cleric

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Iran earthquake hits near Sarpol-e Zahab in Kermanshah province

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press